Murach's VB.NET Database Programming with ADO.NET (1.x edition)
by Anne Prince and Doug Lowe
17 chapters, 585 pages, 279 illustrations
ISBN-10: 1-890774-19-7; ISBN-13: 978-1-890774-19-6
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You won’t get far as a Visual Basic developer unless you know how to write database applications.
If you’re working with .NET 2.0, the best way to master database programming is to use the latest edition of this book, Murach’s ADO.NET 2.0 Database Programming with VB 2005.
But if you’re working with .NET 1.x, then this ADO.NET
book is the one you need. It takes you from beginner
to database professional in a logical progression that
makes each step easier to master.
As a result, you’ll quickly get your mind around the hundreds of classes, properties, methods, and events that are part of ADO.NET. And you’ll build your expertise with the various programming techniques that you can use for any given database task, so you can choose the best one for the project at hand.
If you look at the table
of contents, you’ll how extensive the coverage is:
- typed and untyped datasets
- bound and unbound controls
- data views
- parameterized queries
- data relations
- XML
- the most extensive coverage of Crystal Reports in
any ADO.NET book
It’s all there! You’ll also learn how to
create and use database classes so you can separate
the database layer from the business and presentation
layers of an application.
And to make sure that you master all the database skills
you need, this book presents 21 complete business applications
that you can learn from and use as guides for
your own work. That includes an order entry application
in chapter 11 that accesses 9 different database tables.
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